The Natural History Museum, Part 5: The Recently Extinct

 The dodo, then and now

 The great auk

 Great moa skeleton

 Moa reconstruction

 Steller's sea cow (front)

 Steller's sea cow (side)

The Natural History Museum, Part 4: The Rise of Mammals

Mesonyx

 Andrewsarchus skull (nearly 3 feet long!)

 Arsinoitherium

 Clockwise: Deinotherium skull, Moeritherium model, Phiomia skull, and Gomphotherium skull. 

(Chronological order: Moeritherium, Phiomia, Deinotherium, Gomphotherium)

 Clockwise: Moropus skeleton, Megacerops skull, Hyracotherium model.

(Chronological order: Hyracotherium, Megacerops, Moropus)

 Paleoparadoxia (front)

Paleoparadoxia (side)

 

The Natural History Museum, Part 3: Dinosaurs and Beyond

Diplodocus

 Stenopterygius

 Rhomaleosaurus

 Attenborosaurus

(formerly known as Plesiosaurus conybeari)

 Sophie, the most complete Stegosaurus skeleton in the world

 Sophie from the front

 Animatronic T. rex

 T. rex head

 Tuojiangosaurus

 Centrosaurus

 Albertosaurus

 Gallimimus

 Camarasaurus

The Natural History Museum, Part 2: Human Origins

 Hominid family tree

 Australopithecus africanus

 Australopithecus sediba

 Homo erectus

 Homo floresiensis ("Hobbit")

 Homo genus map

The Natural History Museum, Part 1: Pleistocene Megafauna

Earlier this month, I went on a weeklong trip to Ireland then England. Naturally, this trip warranted a trip to the Natural History Museum in London. Here a few highlights of this wonderful museum just pertaining to Pleistocene megafauna. Enjoy!

The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)

The American mastodon (Mammut americanum)

Stegodon

 The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis)

 Elasmotherium (the real unicorn!)

The saber-toothed tiger (Smilodon fatalis)

Glyptodon

 Megatherium

While in Dublin during the first day of my visit, I visited the local natural history museum as well. This institution was more oriented towards zoology than paleontology, though there was notable exception to this rule:

The Irish elk (Megaloceros)